Following a link a few months ago I found this facinating article written by R.Douglas Fields on Scientific American website called “Watching the brain learn”
It seems that only half of the brain is “grey matter” The rest is made up of relatively un-researched white matter which, as this article says, appears to be extremely influential [...]
Our understanding of how the brain stores and retrieves data is still in the early stages of development. What is clear though, is that the result of learning (memory?) is stored in many places in the brain. Rather than being a problem, this provides us with many ways of accessing memory when we want to [...]
For many years I have been aware of the generally held view that playing Baroque music, specifically Mozart, can have a beneficial impact on learning and retention.
Some have even suggested playing Mozart to children can improve IQ and the common reason given for this is the “Mozart Effect”.
On a quiet day in the office recently [...]
Recently I’ve had several conversations about action learning sets and learning through doing. A colleague reminded me of the importance of having the learning process reflect the learning content and gave a bad example of a lecture about learner participation!
I then saw this cartoon and it made me smile as it raises all kinds of questions about experiential learning
Researchers have shown that when we read, the brain looks for patterns. No surprise there as this is what the brain is brilliant at. In this post Paul explores 2 of these patterns. First and last letters and upper case vs lower case and the impact they have on our flip charts and need to spell correctly.
